VANCOUVER—A scathing report looking into the B.C. Liberal government’s ethnic vote-getting strategy cost Premier Christy Clark another resignation and thousands of dollars that she says her party will repay.

The deputy chief of staff, Kim Haakstad and Clark’s Minister of Multiculturalism John Yap have stepped down. On Thursday, the day the government released a report into its investigation of the plan, Mike Lee, an executive assistant in the ministry of justice and attorney general, resigned for his role in the plan.

Another staffer, Brian Bonney, a former government communications officer, had also resigned before the report was issued. The report found that Bonney had sent emails from his government account to a personal email.

Clark said the party will repay back $70,000 that the report, conducted by four deputy ministers, found were misspent government funds that went into partisan activity.

But the opposition NDP is not satisfied and is demanding further investigation into how much government-paid resources were put into the Liberals’ outreach strategy.

NDP House leader John Horgan said Clark’s former chief of staff, Mike MacDonald, who is now the B.C. Liberals’ campaign director, should have been interviewed.

“How can the public have any confidence if the head guy in her office at the time and the head guy now running her campaign was not interviewed,” said Horgan.

The Liberals have responded to the NDP’s criticism with some of their own, saying that a draft auditor general’s report this week has found that the opposition caucus took $200,000 from the budgets of constituency offices and funnelled it into a separate fund. That money, Liberal Bill Bennett said, is not supposed to be used for political purposes but was.

“When are they going to order an investigation and when are they going to apologize and pay the money back,” Bennett said Thursday.

The NDP said it had checked the re-distribution of funds and none of it went to the party itself. The funds went through the legislature’s accounts, said NDP MLA Shane Simpson, who added the Liberals were trying to change the channel on the issue to deflect attention from its own misuse of funds.

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